Tyler B. Parker
Tyler B. Parker is a master’s student in Islamic and Near Eastern Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. He serves as an Arabic Instructional Aide and studies (neo)colonial impact on Islamic governance and religiosity.
By Tyler B. Parker
South of Suez
When Great Britain announced in January 1968 its military withdrawal from colonial holdings bracketing the Indian Ocean, it announced an era of reckoning in which colonial legacy and Islamically-oriented political parties vied for power across the Middle East. Today, Sudan and Yemen remain salient examples of that era's lasting effects.
